We only have one life…

If you passed me in the street, you would never imagine the story behind my smile or the way I walk. Facing the darkness of a deep fall and the dizzying highs, without control over the emotional rollercoaster that sometimes violently throws you toward an uncertain future, is anything but easy.

After more than two years of burnout, returning to work without meaning without helping others was simply not an option. Today, I consciously reflect on my personal and professional life, my past and my present, and to a lesser extent my future, which often brings anticipatory anxiety.

Without sport, I would not be alive today.

With experience across communication, media and brand activation, I have founded several companies. My passion for people has allowed me to transform my weaknesses into strengths. After a long break, I resumed my communication agency activities, but above all, I chose to develop a project that truly reflects who I am today aligned with new values, with sport as a natural driving force.

An agency that creates connection and support… not just profit.

Covid has left deep and lasting marks on our society and on companies: increasing absenteeism, widespread remote work, fewer real interactions at the office (even around the coffee machine, a key place for human exchange), longer burnouts, loss of purpose and engagement, reduced creativity and productivity. This reality led me to create PadelMax.

PadelMax is Belgium’s first 100% social corporate agency. Created by someone who was personally affected by the system, its mission is to rebuild social bonds and meaningful interactions between colleagues and teams.

PadelMax’s sole objective is to reconnect people and help them feel alive again through meaningful activities such as sport, wellbeing workshops and the discovery of local products, all with a strong ecological focus.

Philanthropy is a powerful form of therapy!

This project fully represents who I am today. Yet it would not be complete without a value that is essential to me: philanthropy. That is why PadelMax supports organisations such as SOS Children’s Villages, Epsylon (Fond Roy, La Ramée, MSP des 3 Arbres), and hopefully soon Viva for Life.

Today, I can no longer do business with profitability as the sole objective.
Being able to contribute, even on a modest scale, to causes that truly matter to me is essential to my personal and professional fulfilment.

Bringing happiness to people facing difficult lives is my driving force. I believe I must now give back what life has given me, despite illness and hardship. I am alive and committed to doing good around me in the years to come. In a way, this is my debt on the path to healing.

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Gauthier Van Reepinghen
Facilitator Social Links
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